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| Excerpt from INNER CITY BLUES |
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…if anyplace should have stimulated the peace that
passeth all understanding, it would have been Crenshaw Boulevard's
Angelus Funeral Home, the mortuary with the old motto, "an
institution as distinctive as its name."
Another sixties designed by black architect Paul Williams,
one of the distinctive embellishments he and the owners
dreamed up for this building was to lay out the night sky
in lights on the chapel ceiling, faithful in position and
intensity to what one could really see if you looked up
on a spring night in Los Angeles—that is, before smog and
the city lights got in the way. But these electrical heavens
were controlled by a bank of rheostats at the front of the
chapel that could simulate the dark night of our grieving
to the bright dawn of gone-to-glory joy.
If you would like to read more of INNER CITY BLUES check
it out in the Books
page. For information on architect Paul R. Williams click
here
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